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Book Launch '1984: India's Guilty Secret'

Join us for the official book launch in the Houses of Parliament hosted by Lord Singh of Wimbledon

Kashi House with Lord Singh and the Network of Sikh Organisations (NSO) cordially invite you to the official launch of 1984 India's Guilty Secret on Wednesday 1st November at 7pm in the House of Lords.

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'1984: India's Guilty Secret'

When 8,000 citizens in the world's largest democracy are murdered in a government-orchestrated genocidal massacre in just four days how is it possible for the guilty to evade justice? This shocking exposé of a true-life Orwellian plot of nightmarish proportions reveals how they did it.

In November 1984, the ruling elite of the world's largest democracy conspired to murder thousands of their country's citizens in genocidal massacres reminiscent of Nazi-era Germany while the world watched on. Over four days, armed mobs brutally and systematically butchered, torched and raped members of the minority Sikh community living in Delhi and elsewhere. The sheer scale of the killings exceeded the combined civilian death tolls of the conflict in Northern Ireland, Tiananmen Square and 9/11. In Delhi alone 3,000 people were killed.

The full extent of what took place has yet to be fully acknowledged. This definitive account based on harrowing victim testimonies and official accounts reveals how the largest mass crime against humanity in India's modern history was perpetrated by politicians and covered up with the help of the police, judiciary and media. The failings of Western governments - who turned a blind eye to the atrocities for fear of losing trade contracts worth billions - are also exposed.

Author: Pav Singh

Pav Singh was born in Leeds, England, the son of Punjabi immigrants. As a member of the Magazine and Books Industrial Council of the National Union of Journalists he has been instrumental in campaigning on the issues surrounding the 1984 massacres.

After spending a year in India researching the full extent of the pogroms and the subsequent cover-up he authored the report 1984 Sikhs' Kristallnacht, which was launched in the UK Parliament in 2005 with the NSO.